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Here are a few things to keep in mind, look forward to, or keep busy with this week, from Tom Perrotta, to ooky spooky, to the Victorian Stroll, to jazzy Christmas Peanuts, to the Greens show, to all sorts of music...

Weather

Tuesday: Chance of rain (especially in the evening), still warm - highs around 60.

Wednesday: Cloudy, chance of showers. Highs around 50.

Thursday: Sunny, upper 40s.

Friday: Same, but a little cooler.

Weekend: Sunny, highs in the lower 40s.

Not bad at all for late November/early December.

Tom Perrotta

Novelist Tom Perrotta will be at UAlbany Tuesday as part of the NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series. Perrotta's written a bunch of books that have caught attention over the last decade or so, among them: Election and Little Children. His new book is The Leftovers, about what happens to the people in a "formerly comfortable suburban community" left behind after the rapture -- here's a review by Stephen King in NYT. 8 pm Assembly Hall uptown campus - free

Sex in a Epidemic
On Tuesday filmmaker Jean Carlomusto will come to the Sanctuary for Independent Media to present her film Sex in an Epidemic, about the grassroots response to HIV and AIDS and development of the concept of "safe sex." Here's a review of the doc. 7 pm - $10 suggested donation

A jazzy Peanuts Christmas

Vince Guaraldi is the guy who wrote all those Peanuts Christmas songs that make you feel like dancing like a cartoon character every time you hear them. On Friday, The Peanut Gallery Trio will perform them at Saint Rose. The school added a second show after the first sold out. 7 pm and 9 pm. $20 for general audience, $10 for students and free for children under 6.

Annual Greens Show

The opening night of the Rensselaer County Historical Society and the Van Rensselaer Garden Club's 55th Annual Greens Show -- a big holiday themed flora display -- is this Thursday. This year's theme is "My Favorite Things." The Greens Show will run through the weekend until the Victorian Stroll. The Thursday night opening is also family night -- children are admitted for free. $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for children over 4.

Victorian strolling

Saratoga
The annual Victorian Streetwalk in Saratoga Springs is Thursday night. Broadway in downtown will be closed to vehicles, and most of the businesses will be open late offering refreshments. 6-10 pm - free

Troy
The Turkey Trot might be Troy's pre-game to the holiday season, but the Victorian Stroll is the official kick-off. For one day, all of the shops in downtown transform into even quainter versions of themselves, and there's entertainment throughout the streets. Sunday at 11 am - free

Japanther

The three towers are prison, museum, and (housing) project, albeit loosely. Music, video, and performance draw parallel lines between the three industrial archetypes. Moving through these structures, the artists utilize fragments of their environment to envision a utopian creative endgame.

Also at EMPAC:Neil Rolnick, the electronic composer and founder of RPI's Integrated Electronic Arts MFA returns to EMPAC on Thursday to perform select scenes from MONO, a work that explores the fragility of perception and how our abilities to perceive shape us. 7:30 pm - free

Saturday: Sgt Dunbar at the Sanctuary for Independent Media
A benefit for the Sanctuary's Youth Media Sanctuary project. The show will be audio/video recorded and webcast for the "Live From Lock One" concert series. 8 pm - $10 ($5 students)

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Saratoga's version of the Victorian Stroll happens this Thursday from 6-10pm on a completely-blocked-to-traffic Broadway. Drink some hot cider, listen to live music, ask Santa for that pony you've always wanted, and end the night with a couple of doughboys to help keep up your energy as you prepare to attack the holiday season head-on!

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